What is the product of electron capture in silver-106?

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Truong-Son N.
May 11, 2017

Electron capture is when the nucleus takes in an electron, combines it with a proton (due to their opposite charge!), and thus forms a neutron. That is, the electron is captured by the nucleus, which loses a proton and gains a neutron (which is about the same mass as the proton).

Thus, the atomic number decreases by 1, but the charge and mass number are conserved.

10647Ag+0−1e→10646X

What is the product element?

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